notphilatall

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by notphilatall 16y ago
I lived in downtown ATL and worked in Norcross ~4 years ago, and had solid T-mobile coverage (better than I have with AT&T in SF now, but that's not saying much).
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by notphilatall 16y ago
Is mensa generally respected? I've always figured it was a pseudo-scam for intellectually competitive people, since one has to pay to take their test (and no sample tests are available.
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by notphilatall 16y ago
How about: Give every user a monotonically incrementing value that's initialized at the start of the session using HTTPS. For every request, the client will provide the next value in the expected sequence. Listeners won't have the secret ke
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Ask HN: Review my Idiocy prevention without site-wide https
2 points by notphilatall 16y ago|1 comments
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by notphilatall 16y ago
You'll thank yourself for taking this step now. Remember that finding paying gigs also takes time, and beggars can't be choosers (of clients)
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by notphilatall 16y ago
Seeing how much of their website's features are for-show only (try the nav buttons under the image), I'd be hesitant.
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by notphilatall 16y ago
One should always hold back un-constructive jabs, but some patterns of suck (ex: c&p vs looping) can be detected and undone even without understanding the entire project. That said, I sympathize with anyone who is doing iterative client
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by notphilatall 16y ago
Python will allow for easier modularity, wheras PHP will make it easier to pollute the global namespace. Likewise, all standard python components are made available in namespaced modules, are consistently named and well documented. You can
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by notphilatall 16y ago
I was thinking about implementing a posterous-like email system for calendaring, and was wondering how they authenticated the emails. I recall them getting "hacked" around launch and there being some TC article about how they responded swif
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by notphilatall 16y ago
Itunes is plenty profitable, though.
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by notphilatall 16y ago
If you are in the mission district of SF, Adobe books was recently featuring an art exhibit that included an oil rendition of her. It might still be up!
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by notphilatall 16y ago
If she is already working as a web designer, learning JS (with libraries such as jQuery) would be a great first step. This way, she could start prototyping her UIs to convince other people to help with the server-side components. Also, she
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by notphilatall 16y ago
There is too much going on on the front page for me to grok what's the focus of the site. I like the use of media, but not that it's relegated to the bottom. Right now the top article on the top of the right hand column is also on the top o
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by notphilatall 17y ago
If Facebook really wants to improve performance, they should look into dropping Apache in favor of a coroutine-based server.
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by notphilatall 17y ago
Simpler client-side code. Instead of setting up an XMLHttpRequestObject and forming a traditional POST request, you request a URL via GET. If there's another advantage, I'm probably missing it (the image switchout shouldn't require a server
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by notphilatall 17y ago
Spectacularly useless may be an overstatement. Even if the twitter topics reflect the mass-media-consensus at the current time, they could still serve as an indicator of a topic being repressed in the media while spreading through new media
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by notphilatall 17y ago
I would love to see a study that adjusts for the effects of inhaling carbon monoxide and other byproducts of plant combustion. Much cannabinoid research concerns THC-similar compounds that are directly applied to the research subject; conve
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by notphilatall 17y ago
I don't think it is specific to software development, it sounds like you just aren't getting respect from your colleagues. The same could happen to folks in chemical engineering, public relations, or any professional setting. Set boundaries
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by notphilatall 17y ago
Did anyone else do a double take on "Sony BMG bought 5.8% of Spotify for 2,935 Euros"? What else did they receive from Sony BMG?
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by notphilatall 17y ago
The author seems to have a hard time venturing out of tech circles to make social connections. Out of this arises a feeling of alienation and resentment for those who are enjoying themselves socially. I have plenty of liberal guilt, but I d
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by notphilatall 17y ago
The drivers allow Linux to run atop Microsoft's new virtualization platform, and don't do anything if you're running Linux any other way. They're giving themselves a lot of credit for releasing drivers that only support their product.
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by notphilatall 17y ago
Have you tried local meetups? I have limited experience with LA, but from what I've taken away the startup scene is a lot more concept oriented, and less hands-on, that the bay scene. Escape from LA, and use your computer skills to do that.
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by notphilatall 17y ago
I didn't read the car part in your original post. Your car is an additional "mouth to feed", in terms of lodging and gas. If things go crazy, you should have enough $$ for some days of hotel and a flight home. Bringing a car full of compute
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by notphilatall 17y ago
Beware that a lot of networking events take place in 21+ places (read: bars) so that may or may not be a problem. You're planning ahead a lot more than most kids that move to SF for a summer. Most end up homeless on haight street before cal
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by notphilatall 18y ago
You'll likely be eating ramen (and vietnamese sandwiches and dimsum) all the way for the entire summer no matter what. With an additional mouth to feed, you have a lot less runway. She has to focus on getting optimal grades, you have to foc
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by notphilatall 18y ago
You're not building applications? I hope you are referring to your specific case - Those of us who are dealing with a significant JS layer need to use every feature CSS and HTML5 have to offer us.
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by notphilatall 18y ago
Learning CSS and taking the time to do it right has other benefits also: Redesign is faster since there are fewer elements to manipulate; 98% of (newbie) cross-browser issues arise from excessive markup that's ignored by FF and interpreted
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by notphilatall 18y ago
Agreed. My first thought reading this was "what kind of horrid company has daily developer meetings at 8:45 AM?"
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by notphilatall 18y ago
If the stories deal with the technology of elections (Voting machines) and/or elections getting hacked, I'd say YES. Especially if it's being discussed to greater depth than at non-technical outlets.
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by notphilatall 18y ago
The last comment shows me how out of touch Calacanis really is: "Outsource to middle America: There are tons of brilliant people living between San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York who don’t live in a $4,000 one bedroom apartment and pa

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